How to use "descent" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "descent" in popular movie and book plots

Having completed the work they make the descent but the support ship is hit by a storm, causing the cables holding the bell to break. - Pressure (2015 film)
During the descent into the Martian atmosphere, there is a malfunction with their spacecraft, the Daedalus. - Mars (miniseries)
At a time when tensions between the East and the West are at a boiling point, “Jimmy Vestvood” playfully skewers American preconceptions of the Middle East and breaks new ground through its depiction of the first hero of Middle-Eastern descent in an American comedy. - Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
Apollo 11 ends in disaster on 21 July 1969 when the LM is struck by a micrometeoroid during descent towards the lunar surface killing astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. - Russians on the Moon!
The unnamed narrator, who has a white, working-class father, and a mother of Jamaican descent is immediately drawn to the precocious Tracey, who has a white mother and no father, as they have the same skin colour and are the only black children at their dance lessons. - Swing Time (novel)
He has iron chains attached to his legs and meets the warden, Harold Hardy, a fat, angry, and spiteful man of Irish descent who hates people from the North. - The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
The two have fled home from their father following his descent in to alcoholism since the unfortunate death of their mother and his violent actions towards them that have resulted in Taku becoming seriously injured. - Submerged (video game)
He commits regicide to become king and then furthers his moral descent with a reign of murderous terror to stay in power, eventually plunging the country into civil war. - Macbeth (1961 film)
Qwei escapes and along the way he fell in love with the Japanese girl Keigi who is actually a descent of To Ko Lam but later fall in love with Qwei. - Death Duel of Kung Fu
Thirty years ago, a man of Miao descent asked Tse Kong (Lau Siu-ming) to keep a statue called the "Old Cave" on his behalf, telling him that the statue can allow him to become wealthy. - The Old Miao Myth
The film follows his descent into alcoholism and his redemption from it through poetry. - Lokshahir Ram Joshi
One side story examines the youth of Kakashi and Obito, exploring Obito’s descent into evil. - Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4
The new tenant is Rata (Vanessa Rare)—a well-dressed, smooth-talking young woman of Māori descent who works for a large finance company. - Ruby and Rata
Fire Knife's thirst for vengeance is too great, so he prepares to kill Ives, who in desperation reveals that he is actually of Cheyenne descent himself. - The Yellow Tomahawk
In the 1920s, Joe Coughlin (Ben Affleck), a World War I veteran of Irish descent and the prodigal son of Boston police captain Thomas Coughlin (Brendan Gleeson), falls in love with Emma Gould (Sienna Miller), the mistress of notorious gangster Albert White (Robert Glenister), the boss of the Irish Gang of Boston. - Live by Night (film)
The chronicle of their explosive life and its gradual descent into the world of crime a journalist who tries to rescue the mortal Queen of beauty performs it. - Señorita Pólvora
His humble descent makes him shy and diffident. - Ordinary World (novel)
Soon after this, the group receives some meat in the lift, and a note saying that whoever kills another will be freed, causing a descent into chaos. - The Bunker Diary
Surviving a rover rollover on his descent into Schiaparelli, Watney reaches the MAV and reestablishes contact with NASA. - The Martian (Weir novel)
In an ethereal golden pond, Grandmaster Oogway appears to Po, and informs him his journey has come full circle, revealing his role by selecting Po as Dragon Warrior because of his descent from the ancient pandas, and his embodiment of the yin-yang. - Kung Fu Panda 3
Her breakneck descent into the shadowy realm of dark biblical texts hurls her across continents and deep into the opaque worlds of the Knights Templar and neo-Nazis, pushing her mentally and physically to the limits. - The Sword of Moses (novel)
When Chronos came to escort her to the afterlife, he was intrigued by her descent into nihilism as a result of having lived an apparently meaningless life. - Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Tyrael reveals that with Diablo gone, Malthael sees humanity as a race of demons based on their descent from the original Nephalem, the offspring of angels and demons; by wiping out humanity, Malthael hopes to end the Eternal Conflict, the long war between Heaven and Hell. - Diablo III: Reaper of Souls
These pages reveal Ortega's descent into madness after injecting himself with his nanomachines. - Hysteria Project 2
Tiwa, a Thai descent girl, have gone to study at LaFlora Academy in Mediterranean Sea she wants to find her mother that went missing. - LaFlora, the Princess Academy
Sound effects depict a descent to Hell: a gong, followed by two crashes of thunder; then an electronic hum, first descending, then ascending in pitch; which dissolves into a sustained violin note, which finally turns into a classical cadenza. - The Plot to Overthrow Christmas
Leaving him to die, Chloé escapes to the cable and in tearful joy begins the descent to safety. - High Lane (film)
One day to visit them coming Frenchman Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), with whom he met Sergey while working on a book about the French Resistance, accompanied by a French translator of Russian descent named André (Anatoly Lobotsky). - The Envy of Gods
Joe Albany was a well accomplished jazz pianist during the 1960s and 1970s, performing with the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus before his descent into heroin addiction. - Low Down
The story of a family of West End gangsters of Irish descent in 1960s post-war London, and the secret love affair between Maura, who rises to become one of the leading gangsters of her day, and Terry Patterson, a policeman. - Dangerous Lady
When they meet the professor in Germany, he is kidnapped and taken to Hungary by a wealthy and ruthless Hungarian, who claims direct descent from Attila the Hun. - The Tombs (novel)
There, Crawford makes a case for cooperation across teams regardless of political or national background based on the fact that all the fieldworkers are of African descent and so are deeply invested in helping to advance Africa. - Black Man's Burden
The breakdown of protocol on board the vessel throughout the many generations meant that key systems were not maintained and the automatic descent systems that would have brought the Heritage down safely on Hope were not engaged so that the ship stayed in orbit for more than 200 years after arrival, with its occupants unaware that they needed to disembark on shuttles to the planet below. - Generations Lost
Aziz, who is of purely Minang descent and a noble background, is favoured by her family; they look down on Zainuddin, who is poor and of mixed heritage. - Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck
The film is based on the episode in Hindu mythology related to the descent of river Ganges to earth. - Gangavathar
Mo (Fady Elsayed) and Rashid "Rash" (James Floyd) are teenage brothers of Egyptian descent living with their parents in Hackney. - My Brother the Devil
In addition to drive out the demons in their reign using the Holy Grail, the Apostles of the Committee must also protect the Holy Mother Moegi Takayama, younger sister of Renga and symbol of the descent of the Virgin Mary in the world, from their attacks: the goal of the demons is, in fact, eating the soul of the Holy Mother, which will allow them to open the Sin Place, the gate that connects the Earth to the Kingdom of the demons, so that they can come and go as they please from the human world. - Holy Talker
Roger walks out of the speech in anger, loathing his apparent descent in value to the agency. - Tea Leaves (Mad Men)
The protagonist is partnered with the young Alice, an Englishwoman of German descent fleeing custody after the death of her military officer grandfather. - 10,000 Bullets
The film tells the Hindu mythical story of river Ganges's descent to Earth. - Gangavataran
Once, as he takes rest in a neighborhood park, reminiscing about his past and fearful of what awaits him in future, Byron,a friend of his passes by and is shocked by Shankar's descent into poverty. - Chowringhee (novel)
The anti-Semitic campaign that follows forces 15,000 Poles of Jewish descent to leave Poland. - Little Rose
Driven by his convictions for power, Barago manages to destroy the last shred of light within him (cutting down his beloved mother, his last light) and proceeds with his descent to the very depths of darkness. - Kiba Gaiden
The novel's ending chronicles his tragic, yet at times comical, descent into madness. - Red April
Faybien Allen is a young gay man of Haitian descent living in Jersey City. - Finding Me
It is a chronological descent to the deepest of Hell, circle by circle to the exit into Purgatory. - Dante's Inferno: Abandon All Hope
However Aida has become a drug addict and over a matter of days makes a descent that would normally occur over years. - Whispers and Moans (film)
The Prime Minister of Canada instructs all people of Canadian descent to go home and open their "Box of Faith", which contains – along with a location beacon, a first aid kit, and a sandwich – a video recording issuing a call to arms for all Canadians in fighting condition to "meet by the tree in Edmonton". - Royal Pudding
Deunan is a young woman of both African and Caucasian descent and the daughter of an American Securities officer named Carl Knute. - Appleseed XIII
The film depicts a chronological descent to the nine circles of hell by Dante and Virgil through the exit into Purgatorio. - Dante's Inferno Animated
Decius, thinking hard, realizes that the young man may have been a virtual nobody, but could recite a pedigree that would virtually guarantee him popular support - claiming descent from Scipio Africanus and the Gracchi, among others. - A Point of Law
One European counterterrorism official said Sidiqi told his interrogators that Naamen Meziche, a French citizen of Algerian descent had assumed a planning role in the terrorist plot which Osama Bin Laden himself approved. - 2010 European terror plot
Being a Chinese, Lance is obliged to marry also a girl of Chinese descent to keep the Chinese blood tradition. - I Do (2010 film)
Based on the real-life story of Kevin Lewis, the film follows his childhood of abuse, his descent into a life of crime and how he put his life together again afterwards. - The Kid (2010 film)
He is watched by Jennings, who says that Superman's descent is only beginning. - Superman: Grounded
Juan's descent into addiction, illness, malice and madness in the second season leads to a shocking confrontation between him and Cesare which forever changes the family. - The Borgias (2011 TV series)
One of these depicts Christ’s descent into hell to free the souls of pagan heroes, with Franziska cast as Helen of Troy. - Franziska (play)
The resolution concentrates on dr Kassler's slow descent into madness and later Hell on Earth. - Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S.
As he strives hard to pay off the debt, he ends up borrowing even more and starts his slow and tragic descent into an abyss of no return. - Aayirathil Oruvan (2009 film)
Norman suggests that there may be a way out down there, and begins a descent into the cavern. - 'It's Alive!'
Along the way, she became engaged to marry Mark (Scheider), an ad executive, but apparently jilted him on the day of their wedding, leading to her descent into drugs and an attempted suicide. - Puzzle of a Downfall Child
What follows is a depiction of her cruel descent into the depths of moral decay, as she becomes a collaborator in a system of exploitation, unbridled lust, vanity, and greed, in which she and other victims are always the losers. - Lullaby of the Earth
Power Girl, critically injured, tells Captain Atom that the tipping point for the world's descent into chaos was Max Lord's murder of Wonder Woman. - Justice League: Generation Lost
Turning to face the person behind the order, Kagenobu glances upon a young woman of mixed descent glaring at him. - Elektra: The Hand
Ann's relationship with her parents suddenly changes when she discovers she is of Aboriginal descent and not French Polynesian as she believed. - Women of the Sun
Allegra becomes deeply involved with the unit and so begins her descent into the darkness and depravity of the human mind. - Child's Play (novel)
For seven days a large family of Moroccan descent observes the Jewish mourning ritual of Shiva when a brother dies. - Shiva (2008 film)
Tesla, who was of Serbian descent but born and raised in Croatia, spent 60 years of his life as a US citizen; this tri-national pedigree alone will present Daisy with semantics problems more complicated than she imagined. - Tesla's Letters
The first portion of the novel is set in Kilburn as Looney's fantasy of royal descent takes hold. - The Looney: An Irish Fantasy
To obtain this goal, it requires Max to go undercover and pretend to be of American descent and work at the plant, and to get close to the girl who runs the plant's office, Beth (Jenna Gallagher), who is coincidentally Danny's girlfriend. - Puppet Master: Axis of Evil
She learns that her teenager brother has been supporting himself pickpocketing under the tutelage of Saïd, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who approached Jeanne on her arrival in the city. - Les Innocents (film)
She is informed of her ancient lineage of descent from Báthory. - Thirst (1979 film)
In a 1995 radio interview at KRCW with Michael Rosenblatt, Gass stated that the difficulty of the novel's early sections, which are introduced by a quote from Anaxagoras ("The descent to hell is the same from every place"), serve as both a false beginning to The Tunnel (the introduction Kohler is writing and his digging project) and as a test for the reader: "I think this is a standard modernist thing, but what it is is to make sure that the person who gets into the book is ready and deserves to be there. - The Tunnel (novel)
The Great Goddess, concerned with the increase of evil in Marvel Land and the strengthen of the Tatta tribe, ordered Valkyrie to descent from the sky to help the people. - The Glory of Walküre
Even the therapist (Alix Longman) has to face her own maternal misgivings as she returns home to deal with the aftermath of her own mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s - a startling performance by Jean Boht as Mary. - Mothers & Daughters (film)
Eventually, the victim's wife, a much younger woman of Mechicain descent and who is conducting an illicit affair with a liqueur merchant, is unmasked. - The Bitter End (short story)
In 1999, an American film director of Greek descent named A (Willem Dafoe) receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecittà studio. - The Dust of Time
Lacking fuel, Ivan is unable to slow down his descent and is forced to eject, while the Phantom crashes in the nearby woods. - The Last of the Immortals
When Sigurd relates his descent from Odin and the slaying of Fafnir, Brynhild is overjoyed and explains that the gods await his coming in Valhalla. - The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
At the end of the book, her sister consoles her once again, telling her to be of good faith, and to prepare for a descent into Hel, guarded by a völva, who will teach her "through fear, the work which will become your honour". - Haugtussa
Dante begins his descent at the shores of Hell where the newly damned souls are forced aboard the great ferry of Charon. - Dante's Inferno (video game)
Victor is introduced by means of voice-over narration (Jesper Hoffmeyer) as a young artist of Jewish descent who has shunned his heritage. - The Orchid Gardener
Paul Schlesselman is of German descent and was a high school dropout raised by a single father in Helena–West Helena, Arkansas. - Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee
99 Francs (the title symbolises the worth of a paperback) is two separate stories: a dark, hallucinatory descent into a hell of drugs and self-indulgence, and a rather chirpy alternative ending to which the audience is invited as "a panel for an experiment". - 99 Francs (film)
She is disgusted at the idea of dr Norval contaminating the racial purity of their home, despite his insistence that Lola is of pure Spanish descent and the dye will fade. - Who Would Have Thought It?
Meanwhile, the plane is making its descent towards New York when the gang suddenly hijacks the aircraft. - Le clan des siciliens
Through Barjo's journals we see the development of conflict and sexual tension between Fanfan and Charles, and the descent of Charles into madness. - Confessions d'un Barjo
He is obsessive-compulsive in his efforts to avoid contamination, and much of the book is a tortured comedy of his descent into madness and being thrown into close contact with a world that he doesn't understand: "You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind" (Canetti, 15). - Auto-da-Fé (novel)
"Letters" is a descent into madness. - The Burnt Ones
Film historian Anne Jäckel describes the story as dealing with "the slow descent into Hell of two honest, liberal people". - An Unforgettable Summer
The young mathematician Daniel Mond (of Jewish-German descent but born in England) arrives to study "The Dortmund papers", a collection of notes left by the German mathematician Dortmund (died 1938). - The Sabre Squadron
An all-night descent into an alcohol-fueled rage follows. - Two Weeks in Another Town
Bela's death—and her soul's resulting descent into Hell—is inevitable, but not shown. - Bela Talbot
Though he passes for white, Bullitt is in fact of African-American descent in an USA where, as revealed in previous novels in the Dryco series, the American Civil War never took place. - Going, Going, Gone (novel)
Realizing the company has used his idea without giving him credit or payment for it, Kearns begins his descent into a despair so deep he boards a Greyhound bus and heads for Washington,C, where he apparently hopes to find legal recourse. - Flash of Genius (film)
The novel details the life of Tomi, a Japanese-American boy, and his family during World War II, when Americans of Japanese descent were being sent to internment camps. - Under the Blood Red Sun
Mladen's descent continues. - Klopka
The women perform heroically, persevering through hardships including a stampede and a wicked descent down a steep, rocky trail that kills one of them when an iron hook attached to the restraining lines straightens under load and sends the wagon plunging out of control. - Westward the Women
The Brumbies are too quick for the riders and, when it becomes too steep and dangerous with Wombat holes (burrows, where a horse could break a leg), all riders stop short of the dangerous descent — apart from Jim, who continues to chase the Brumby herd - finally bringing the herd (including the colt) back to John Conroy's property. - The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (film)
The film is about a young man, Jargo (Constantin von Jascheroff), who is of German descent but has resided in Saudi Arabia with his parents. - Jargo
Unfortunately, in the ensuing struggle, Savage sends himself and Batman hurtling back into Earth's atmosphere, Bruce dying in the descent while Savage regenerates in the desert after a few days. - Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty
Spurred into action, Doo Han Kim, leader of the Umi Gang and son of the famous General Jwah Jin Kim, and Sirasoni, a warrior of Manjoo descent and hailed as 'the greatest fighter of all time', rise up to challenge the oppressive tyranny. - Age of Wanderer
Unable to cope with the loss of his father, Andrew’s descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum, and the once promising young man is now headed for self-destruction (in what Variety calls “an especially blistering performance by Monty Lapica”). - Self Medicated
One day a large package arrives; that evening Lars tells Gus and Karin that he has a visitor whom he met via the Internet, a wheelchair-mobile missionary of Brazilian and Danish descent named Bianca. - Lars and the Real Girl
She decides to use her classical education and advertise her services as a governess, transforming herself into Mary Blackchurch - a Protestant of partial Italian descent - in order to conceal her heritage. - The Governess
However, the equipment cannot handle the fast descent back into the atmosphere and the ship crash lands in the woods, killing Corcoran. - Night of the Blood Beast
The first scene shows the life of the Nomura family, a typical American family of Japanese descent in 1941, composed of Japanese-born parents and American-born children (in this case, two sons, Lane and Lyle). - American Pastime (film)
One of the passengers is of Afkaqi descent and understands the conversation; he tells the stewardess and she is telling the other flight attendants, Samoosa makes an announcement that there is a bomb on the plane. - Oh Schuks... I'm Gatvol
On May 7, 1915, a German torpedo sent the ship to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean in just 18 minutes—its speedy descent into the depths occurring far too fast for most of those aboard to make it to the lifeboats. - Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
At Mission Control Center, the Soviet operatives have infiltrated and are preparing to alter the descent codes. - Fly Me to the Moon (film)
Instead of generating thrust, the rockets began to overheat and melt themselves, so the controllers jettisoned the engines and the robot completed its descent under a parachute. - Close to Critical
Helena is a girl of Spanish descent ("white girl" in the book), who lives next to a river near the Amazon forest with her family of subsistence farmers. - Yanoama
Scarlet, Blue and the Base Concord personnel realise that the VGR's invisibility to radar must be the effect of travelling on vertical ascent and descent flightpaths – therefore, the rocket's target can only be Base Concord itself. - Renegade Rocket
The account shows Kolibri's descent into madness, and his eventual realization of the evil of Murkholm. - Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures
A village in rural Thailand is celebrating Loy Krathong, when the festivities are disrupted by the descent of a spaceship. - Blackbirds at Bangpleng
His Most Catholic Majesty sends his personal bodyguard, the Real Compania Irlandesa (Royal Irish Company), composed of poorly trained men of Irish descent under the command of the inexperienced Lord Kiely (Jason Durr). - Sharpe's Battle (TV programme)
They tell of Cronus' ascension to the throne with his queen Rhea, and his descent to madness after the Furies torment him nightly with prophecies that he, like his father, would be overthrown by his son. - The God Beneath the Sea
When his existence is revealed by the Mysteron Detector, the Indigo duplicate sabotages the conference by activating the lodge's descent mode; seizing the key for the ascent-descent controls, he subsequently escapes in a car, leaving the delegates to be crushed by the building slowly bearing down on them. - Spectrum Strikes Back
The journey takes him nineteen days, and the narrative includes descriptions of the Earth from space as well as the descent to its fiery, volcanic satellite. - The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
The phases of his life show the destruction of hope and innocence and his descent into cynicism, alcoholism and hopelessness. - Crazy Love (1987 film)
Jensen nearly died on the descent when a piton attached to a rock pass came loose and he fell fifteen feet off the slope. - Everest: Beyond the Limit
She agrees to marry him only after he proves that he is of pure Aryan descent through medical examination. - I Served the King of England (film)
After abruptly leaving Namor, Sue attempts a dangerous descent into a volcanic conduit. - Fantastic Four: The End
During her quest, she slowly discovers disturbing aspects of her husband, including his descent from his earlier radicalism into bourgeois degeneracy. - Alicinte Anveshanam
According to Liscutin, characters of Korean descent are depicted with "pronounced cheekbones and thus, allegedly more realistic", including those friendly to the protagonists and those against the antagonists. - Manga Kenkanryu
It treats a number of different supposed facets of Caligula's life, including his popular early acts as emperor and his descent into madness. - I Am a Barbarian
Mona attempts to run out of the slave castle and is met by white slave masters who she tries to reason with by claiming she of American descent and not of African descent. - Sankofa (film)
We also see how the geography of the area would have been different from our timeline, including things like deep river canyons as the rivers around the Mediterranean would have incised such canyons in their descent down the old continental shelf; hydroelectric dams on such rivers generated 80% of Tartesh's electricity. - Down in the Bottomlands
The film follows Therese on her surreal descent into violence, in which men in her life become the Ten Tigers of Canton that she must kill in order to become a better woman. - Mad Cowgirl
Now Greece is surrounded by a force field cutting it off from the rest of the world, and people of Greek descent everywhere have vanished, presumably spirited away to the isolated region by the Emperor's agents. - The Glory That Was
Shakara is eventually killed by Cinnabar Brenneka, the legendary warrior who first united the Shakara in their conquest of the galaxy to cleanse it of corruption,and then allied with his former foes to destroy the Shakara, disgusted by their own descent into decadence. - Shakara
After wooing the receptionist, they encounter huntsman/sanatorium owner dr Wolfington, who has used the millions made from the Brahe family's inevitable descent into madness to hunt down and kill every rare animal in the world. - Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
The two sneak down the secret entrance the king mentioned earlier, but in their descent they find thousands of harpy eggs, eventually coming to the conclusion that Vorian is planning a full-scale attack. - The Harpy
Li and Lin break into the tower and succeed in rescuing Zhao after making a perilous descent to its lowest level. - The Legend of Sword and Fairy (video game)
The descriptions of them fit into the Slavophile tradition, comparing them strikingly against urban Little Russians (Ukrainians), particularly in Saint Petersburg, who are referred to as "paltry contemptible creatures" (because they acquire wealth dishonorably and conceal their descent by changing their last names to sound like Great Russians). - The Old World Landowners
Mourad's crazy behavior was considered to be of natural descent from their uncle Khosrov, even though his father, Zorab, was a practical man. - The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
The story follows his journey towards and descent into the mine. - The Miner
Glaeken's only hope in defeating Rasalom and reversing the planet's descent into madness is to forge another power-sword out of the widely scattered materials that remain of his first two mystical weapons of Light. - Nightworld (novel)
Tris tests herself when a boomstone begins a descent on Discipline and blows it up. - Tris's Book
The stage is set for a sex and violence-fueled descent into mayhem as the plot twists and secrets are revealed. - Last Exit (2003 film)
Lansdale becomes jealous of Anne's yoga instructor and begins his slow descent into total darkness when an encounter with a homeless man (Oliver Stone) leaves the man dead at the "hand" of his former appendage. - The Hand (1981 film)
During the ride, a young companion urges him to let go of the railing as the descent begins, but Bob firmly holds on. - My Life (film)
After saying goodbye to Raul and telling Rogers to go to hell she begins her descent down it in a boiling rain, but suddenly finds herself back on Earth, having returned to life. - Toothless
Sarah Mann is drummed out of the local nursing service, and ostracised in town, because her father was of German descent and had left Canada to rejoin the Imperial German Army in 1915. - Passchendaele (film)
As Rio thanks the operator, the pod starts a descent towards earth, and it is up to the player's imagination if the two survived the landing. - Lifeline (video game)
They learn that: McQueen was the son of the District Attorney who prosecuted the case and was very fond of mrs Armstrong; Beddoes was, before going into service, a British Army batman; Countess Andrenyi is of German descent and her maiden name is Grunwald; Greta Ohlsson has a limited knowledge of the English language but has spent some time in America fund-raising; Pierre Michel's daughter died five years earlier of scarlet fever; Col. - Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
A return to the surface yields more combat, access to the plasma stream's entry point, and the beginning of the descent down the beam's path that carries the episode to its conclusion and is continued in the next installment. - Minerva (video game)
Seeing that nothing can stop the town's descent into chaos, the Chief of Police, Loman Watkins, vows to kill Shaddack, which will automatically and simultaneously kill every converted person in the community. - Midnight (Koontz novel)
The story reaches its climax inside the cave when Spivey and her last standing helper, Kyle Barlow, begin their descent to kill the child and stop the supposed rise of the Antichrist. - The Servants of Twilight
However, as Larry loses touch with farming life, he begins to lose touch with reality, and his painful descent into senility leaves him bitterly opposed to his daughters' ways of running the farm. - A Thousand Acres (film)
After a long descent down Mount Crumpit, the Grinch returns to Whoville with Cindy and the gifts. - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000 film)
The descent to the lake poses three main problems: passing the German-held town of Shona; passing the heavy rapids and cataracts; and getting through the river delta. - The African Queen (novel)
One of the shady combatants is knocked into the water along with the briefcase he carries; when the other flees the dark quayside, Maloin makes a clandestine descent from the tower and retrieves the briefcase, which he finds full of sodden English banknotes. - The Man from London
Weeks go by, during which Katie's father struggles to make ends meet working in a factory and Mina begins a slow descent into alcoholism. - Keetje Tippel
She wants him to marry her, which her refuses, which triggers her descent into addiction and depression. - Bittersweet Memories (film)
The War of the Roses tells the story of Jonathan and Barbara Rose, and their descent from a picturesque family life into a world of macabre self-destruction. - The War of the Roses (novel)
A man of Middle Eastern descent rudely pushes past her. - Protocol (film)
The Brumbies are too quick for the riders and, when it becomes too steep and dangerous with Wombat holes (burrows, where a horse could break a leg), all riders stop short of the dangerous descent — apart from Jim, who continues to chase the Brumby herd - finally bringing the herd (including the colt) back to John Conroy's property. - The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular
Enraged by hearing the cause of Lewellen's descent into figurative hell, Charles resolves to rescue his young friend from the depths of despair and tries to help her reclaim her stolen paralyzed voice by encouraging her to sing "Hound Dog". - Hounddog (film)
This breath of the passion immortal was all that other had asked; the descent of Mary Antrim opened his spirit with a great compunctious throb for the descent of Acton Hague". - The Altar of the Dead
The work traces the death of Claudius, his ascent to heaven and judgment by the gods, and his eventual descent to Hades. - Apocolocyntosis
The monster submerges and continues his descent toward Tokyo. - Varan the Unbelievable
Hours away from the Federation's 3rd descent operation (which triggered the full-scale battles), the team decides to return to Labyrinthos to rescue Shion. - Xenosaga Episode III
The work culminates in don Félix's descent into hell. - El estudiante de Salamanca
The two craft ride in together, and once into the atmosphere, XU-5 veers off while Cody fights to keep Starflight under control in a wild descent with damaged wings. - Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
The second part of the book is told from the perspective of Ben, a Canadian professor of Jewish descent who was born in Canada to survivors of the Holocaust. - Fugitive Pieces
Eduardo Plarr is an unmarried medical doctor of English descent who when a boy left Paraguay with his mother to escape the political turmoil for Buenos Aires. - The Honorary Consul
" Angelus mock-commiserates with Gunn about Fred's affections shifting to Wesley, citing Wesley's recent descent into more violent behavior as the cause; "for once in your life," Angelus teases, "you just weren't dark enough". - Calvary (Angel)
Angel is able to break through to her, however and Bethany reveals that she has gained control over her powers by telling her father "Goodbye" before hurling him out of the window and allowing him to fall until she stops his descent five feet from the ground, letting him land unharmed. - Untouched (Angel)
When he and Moira break up after a few months, he takes a room with Joan Cohen, a rich professional woman of Jewish descent about his own age. - Mrs. Kimble
Stella Condon does have a suitor, a self-made millionaire and widower of Jewish descent called Moses Feldt, but she explains to Linda that she is not going to repeat past mistakes by getting married again. - Linda Condon
Another theme is Lynley's aristocratic descent (he is sometimes referred to as "Lord Asherton")—shown through his working relationship with his working class colleague Barbara Havers from Acton and his unrequited love for Lady Helen Clyde. - Well-Schooled in Murder
(Observation data from the 1994 unmanned spacecraft Clementine has indicated the existence of subsurface water ice mixed with lunar soil, as confirmed by Lunar Prospector and subsequent missions, but exposed water ice on the moon's surface has not been recognized by the scientific community) There the crew tests an experimental heavy Lunar rover, launched to their location earlier by a Saturn 1B and delivered to the Moon using a stand-alone LM descent stage called the "LM Truck". - Ice (Johnson novel)
Korean descent Japanese karate master who tries to prove that his karate is better than the modern "dance" karate. - Champion of Death
His story, "Deep Space Nine", is about the station's commanding officer, Benjamin Sisko, a human of African descent (or Negro, the term used in the show). - Far Beyond the Stars
The game outlines either Jericho's struggle for humanity or his descent into darkness, depending on the player's actions. - Darkwatch
One of the students, Carl, who was half-German himself and liked Chuchu deeply, managed to help the other students escape by using his Aryan descent to trick a German soldier's trust, but he was soon injured, cornered and machinegunned to death in a forest pit. - Red Cherry
Through researching Burt’s descent to madness, Carson and DeVaca realize that what occurred with Vanderwagon closely resembled the behavior of Burt toward the end. - Mount Dragon
The narrator and protagonist of the story, Hermann Karlovich, a Russian of German descent and owner of a chocolate factory, meets a homeless man in the city of Prague, whom he believes is his doppelgänger. - Despair (novel)
Bobby and Press start their descent from the mountain, and they are attacked by twelve quigs (animals Saint Dane uses to patrol the gates of the flumes; the appearance of quigs vary among the territories). - The Merchant of Death
The Pendennises, however, claim descent from an ancient family, and Arthur's uncle Major Pendennis, though he has only his retired Army pay, associates with wealthy and titled people. - Pendennis
The later parts of the book describe Jeffson's descent into mad pompousness: adopting Turkish attire, he declares himself monarch and burns down cities (including Paris, Bordeaux, London, and San Francisco) for pleasure. - The Purple Cloud
When he makes friends with Andreas Zaleshoff, an American businessman of Russian descent whose office is in the same building, he learns from the latter that Bellinetti is an agent for the OVRA and watching each and every step Marlow takes, and that his predecessor's accident—he was run over by a car in a dark and foggy street of Milan—was in fact cold-blooded politically motivated murder. - Cause for Alarm (novel)
She describes his descent into insanity, and that at one time he would borrow piles of books believing that aliens were sending him messages encoded in their Dewey Decimal codes. - Proof (2005 film)
The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa), British, Afrikaner, and Indian, Chinese, and other foreign workers. - The Covenant (novel)
Along comes the sexually adventurous Mona Mayfair, a precocious teenager and powerful witch and Rowan's cousin sharing lines of descent from Julien. - Lasher
Their parents are Roz (Lynn Whitfield) and Louis (Samuel Jackson), a well-respected doctor in Louisiana's "colored" community who claims descent from the French aristocrat who founded the town of Eve's Bayou. - Eve's Bayou
Each team member witnesses the tragedies that had befallen them in their separate universes, such as the death of Barry Allen; Hal Jordan's descent into madness and villainy; and the loss of the Vision and Wanda's children. - JLA/Avengers
After witnessing his mother's adultery with his father's best friend, Ralph must survive not only boarding school but also his beloved father's remarriage to Ruby, a fast-talking American Airlines stewardess, and his father's gradual descent into alcoholism. - Wah-Wah (film)
The book begins with an ancient vampire of Nordic descent awaking after being frozen in a block of ice for hundreds of years. - Blood and Gold
The Siege of Pleasure relates Jenny's early life as a servant, and her descent into prostitution. - 20,000 Streets Under the Sky
The court of King Minos is of Hellene descent and speaks Greek. - The King Must Die
The twins' descent sees them become romantically involved with Alba, and increasingly attached to one another. - A Zed & Two Noughts
As Zero-X re-enters Earth's atmosphere on 2 September, a lifting body launched to assist the controlled descent fails to interface, damaging the escape unit circuit (EUC). - Thunderbirds Are Go
The narrator believes that Y'ha-nthlei has survived its apparent destruction by the authorities, but it is unclear whether this is the case or merely a by-product of his descent into madness. - The Shadow over Innsmouth
Again he wants to kill himself, but lacks the nerve; again, his descent continues. - The Living Corpse
The Doctor intercepts the seed during its descent but tells his friends that it cannot be defused. - The Dominators
Dracula reawakens in 1852, after nearly sixty years of enforced slumber, as a result of humankind's descent into vice and wickedness. - Castlevania (Nintendo 64)
During the descent Schaeffer notices many unusual things: the stars ahead of him began to turn blue from Doppler shift as his speed increases enormously; the stars behind him, rather than being red-shifted, were blue too as their light accelerated with him into the gravity well of the neutron star. - Neutron Star (short story)
Ro Laren states she can use the descent angle of the shuttlecraft to approximate the landing site. - Power Play (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
However, after its arrival in lower atmosphere, the SOLG's core structures are destroyed by the Razgriz, and the station's descent is stopped before it hits the capital. - Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
As the story ends, we are told that "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead". - The Dead (short story)
Above the town of Monterey on the California coast lies the shabby district of Tortilla Flat, inhabited by a loose gang of jobless locals of Mexican-Indian-Spanish-Caucasian descent (who typically claim pure Spanish blood). - Tortilla Flat
They depict Van and Ada discovering their true relationship, Demon and Marina's tempestuous affair, Marina's sister Aqua's descent into madness and obsession with Terra and water, and Van's "first love", a girl he sees in an antique shop but never speaks to. - Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Featherston, beginning an apparent descent into madness, gives the trapped army maniacal orders to hold its ground rather than attempt a breakout. - Settling Accounts: Drive to the East
Taking pity on Orfeu, the janitor takes him down a large darkened spiral staircase – a reference to the mythical Orpheus' descent into the underworld – to a Macumba ritual, a regional form of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. - Black Orpheus
Deeply moved, he immediately begins a recovery from his descent into disillusionment and spiritual vacancy, regaining his "faculties". - For Esmé—with Love and Squalor
His visions and hallucinations, hence his denial of the reality of the situation, mark his descent into irrationality. - The Spire
His descent back into crime is precipitated by a visit from a local police officer, Constable Alex Fitzpatrick. - True History of the Kelly Gang
The story, told from Henry's perspective as he relays it in anecdotal form at a barbecue, concerns Henry's descent into Thorpe's madness. - The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
Varl announces that Group Marshal Stike of the Ninth Sontaran Battle Fleet is in descent orbit. - The Two Doctors
At the same time, Ben develops a crush on his new lab partner, Stephanie Vandergosh (Anna Cheung), a girl of Asian descent adopted by a white family. - Better Luck Tomorrow
However, the two doctors manage to give Lucy a blood transfusion to slow her descent into vampirism, but she remains under Dracula's spell. - Dracula (1979 film)
The story details the descent of a young woman into madness. - The Yellow Wallpaper
The plot tells the story of a Chinese family, headed by Tan Ah Teck-the owner of a mini-mart and his family-housewife Dolly and children Ronnie, Paul and Denise along with their neighbours, namely Daisy, a lady of Indian descent and her brother, Michael (played by Rajiv Dhawn) and the married Malay couple Rosnah and Yusof, all living in an apartment building. - Under One Roof (1994 TV series)
The play tells the story of a young couple, Cathy (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. - Cathy Come Home
After achieving orbit around the Moon, the crew begins the complex landing procedure, using too much fuel during the Lunas descent phase. - Destination Moon (film)
Through a porthole, they bravely watch their rapid descent into the wilds of Nova Scotia. - Rocketship X-M
Schofield's group then meets up with Riley's group, and the president reveals that the reason for his visit to Area 7 is to check on the progress of a vaccine being developed for the Sinovirus, a genetically engineered virus that differentiates between the amount of pigmentation in a person's skin, allowing it to target only people of a specific race (however people of Asian descent are immune). - Area 7 (novel)
Charles Gould is a native Costaguanero of English descent who owns an important silver-mining concession near the key port of Sulaco. - Nostromo
The book follows Thaw's wartime evacuation, secondary education and his scholarship to the Glasgow School of Art, where his inability to form relationships with women and his obsessive artistic vision lead to his descent into madness and eventual suicide by drowning. - Lanark: A Life in Four Books
all seems to be going relatively well until Vinz is killed, and from there no one knows what will happen, a microcosm of French society's descent through hostility into pointless violence. - La Haine
Urania retells her father's descent into political disgrace, and the betrayal that forms the crux of both Urania's storyline and that of Trujillo himself. - The Feast of the Goat
For him, Marie represents the youth and opportunity he sacrificed, and his eventual realization that she is not as pure and perfect as he imagined sends him back to the bottle and a slow descent into unbridled rage. - Come Back, Little Sheba (play)
After the 11 September 2001 attacks, an informant told the Internal Security Department about Muhammad Aslam Yar Ali Khan, who is a Singaporean citizen of Pakistani descent and had made claims of having ties with Al-Qaeda. - Singapore embassies attack plot
A North Carolina sheriff (Taye Diggs) investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of a working class college girl (Mia Kirshner) and discovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery. - New Best Friend
Ecotopia has tolerated the voluntary separatism of many people of African descent who have, in fact, chosen to live in a mini-nation in the San Francisco East Bay-area. - Ecotopia
The House of Guise claimed descent from Charlemagne, and harbored pretensions to the French crown. - House of Guise
In the resulting struggle, Sheeta falls from the airship but her descent is slowed by the amulet which starts glowing. - Castle in the Sky
At the field of battle, the two brothers accept a truce, but Saburo becomes alarmed when Kyoami arrives to tell of his father's descent into insanity. - Ran (film)
Pak jumps off the 500 m cliff, his descent slowed by the low gravity and using his shirt as a parachute, and is quickly rescued by the waiting boat. - Rendezvous with Rama
Protagonist Wilfred of Ivanhoe is disinherited by his father Cedric of Rotherwood for supporting the Norman King Richard and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, Cedric's ward and a descendant of the Saxon Kings of England, after Cedric planned to marry her to the powerful Lord Athelstane, a pretender to the Crown of England through his descent from the last Saxon King, Harold Godwinson. - Ivanhoe

Example sentences for "descent" in interesting articles

At that height, RLV-TD separated from HS9 booster and further ascended to a height of about 65km. From that peak altitude of 65 km, RLV-TD began its descent followed by atmospheric re-entry at around Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). - India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Demonstrator Successfully Flight Tested
About a few minutes after takeoff, the first stage separates from the top of the rocket and makes a controlled descent back to Earth — either landing on solid ground or on one of the company’s autonomous drone ships in the ocean. - SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket
At that height, RLV-TD separated from HS9 booster and further ascended to a height of about 65km. From that peak altitude of 65 km, RLV-TD began its descent followed by atmospheric re-entry at around Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). - India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Demonstrator Successfully Flight Tested
In the last year, weapons from that neighborhood have been linked to Parisian-born Amedy Coulilaby, a thirty-three-year-old of Malian descent who had been a jail buddy of one of the Kouachi brothers and who carried out the lethal January attack on a Kosher supermarket in Paris; and Mehdi Nemmouche, twenty-nine, a French national of Algerian origin who spent a over a year with ISIS in Syria and was responsible for the deadly shootings at the Jewish Museum of Belgium. - The War ISIS Wants
Perry, “A National Security Walk Around the World,” 2016 Drell Lecture, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, February 10, 2016. ↩ 2 “The descent down the slippery slope began, I believe, with the premature NATO expansion, and I soon came to believe that the downsides of early NATO membership for Eastern European nations were even worse than I had feared” (p. - A Stark Nuclear Warning
They don't want to do anything that might quicken the descent of wow. - We are Nostalrius, a World of Warcraft fan-made game server. AMA
Oh yes Scientific American, if I recall, published a paper titled "Why Negros Always Riot" They also made a papier-mâché replica of the twin towers, had a dark-skinned person of Middle-East descent slice it to pieces with a scimitar, and announced they proved forthwith that Israel had no connection to the affair. - Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says
But we've reached a point now where we believe too much time has passed for the investigation to be credible and that it's clear the security situation isn't safe for the team in Syria," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Tuesday, echoing the kind of impatience that characterized the descent into the Iraq war. - Why America cannot live without wars
And they said that rigorous testing was generally an accepted practice in their home countries, with the tests viewed not so much as measures of intelligence, but of industriousness. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “Most of our parents don’t believe in ‘gifted,’ ” said Riyan Iqbal, 15, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, as he and his friends — of Bengali, Korean and Indian descent — meandered toward the subway from the Bronx High School of Science one recent afternoon. - For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones
In his kitchen, he left the lyrics of a song scribbled on a piece of paper that described a man’s descent into self-hatred. - Night School: How regulators undermined a transportation startup
Paakkarinen and Gronqvist continue the descent alone. - The cave divers who went back for their friends
Others speculated on what its rapid descent into inappropriate chat said for the future of AI. Image copyright Twitter After hours of unfettered tweeting from Tay, Microsoft appeared to be less chilled than its teenage AI. - Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
The latest results, published on Friday, show the woman was of European descent - making the theory that the woman was an agent from Israel much less likely.Norwegian police are set to issue an Interpol black notice - which seeks information on unidentified bodies - with the new information.European police forces will be asked to check their DNA databases to see if they find a match. - Isdal Woman: A mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years

Meaning of "descent" in English

the act of changing your location in a downward direction
properties attributable to your ancestry
a movement downward
the descendants of one individual
a downward slope or bend
the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

Meaning of "descent" in Hindi

पतन ( Patan)
उतार ( Utar, utaar)
ढाल ( Dhal, dhaal)
जन्म ( Janm, zanm)
उद्भव
कुल ( Kul)
आक्रमण ( Aakraman)
चढाई ( Chadhai, chadhaaee)
हमला ( Hamala, hamalaa)
वंशज ( Vanshaj, wanshaz)
विरासत ( Virasat, viraasat, wirasat)
चढ़ाई ( Chadhai, chadhaaee)
उद्भव ( Udbhav, udbhaw)
उतराई ( Utarai, utaraaee)
वंश परंपरा ( Vansh paranpara, vansh paranparaa, wansh paranpara)
व‌ंशानुक्रम ( Vanshanukram, wanshanukram)
निचली पीढी़ ( Nichali pidhi, nichalee peedhee)
अन्वय ( Anvay, anway)
अवतरण ( Avataran, awataran)

Synonyms of "descent"

line
blood
decline
fall
stock
ancestry
lineage
origin
parentage
extraction
pedigree
declension
bloodline
declivity
declination
stemma
filiation
line of descent
blood line
downslope

Antonyms of "descent"

climb
rise
acclivity
upgrade
ascent
raise

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